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Mozart
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English
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Etymology
en de Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as en gmh Mozahrt, from gmh motzen to roll in filth; originally used as a given name with the gmh -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people.
Pronunciation
en /ˈməʊtsɑːt/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Mozart.wav Southern England
en /ˈmoʊtsɑɹt/ US
Noun
By analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.
en 1933 Sir William Mitchell The Place of Minds in the World 142 One child is a Mozart with a flying start, while another foots it, and makes little way; but the course is the same, being set by the object.
en 1911 Joseph Lane Hancock Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular Account of Insects, Birds,... 103 He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air.
a. 1875, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (1875) p. 446
[W]e can understand how a father who is a good musician may have a son who is a Mozart—a genius in music...
By extension, a virtuoso in any field.
en 2006 Ryan A Nerz Eat This Book: a year of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit 67 There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself.
en 2001 Victor H. Mair The Columbia History of Chinese Literature 296 Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.
en 2001 Lawrence Grobel Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives Joyce Carol Oates has said, "If there is a Mozart of interviewers, Larry Grobel is that individual."
en 2001 Kathryn Ann Lindskoog Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries 116 In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility.
en 1976 Noel Bertram Gerson Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography 86 By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.
Proper noun
s
en German; en music used specifically of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
en 2005-09-16 Nicholas Kenyon Myth, Muzak and Mozart https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/sep/16/classicalmusicandopera.mozart The Guardian How do we know what we think we know about Mozart? And why is he still the most popular composer of the western classical tradition? He is one of the most written-about, dissected and mythologised composers in the history of western music.
en 1999 Hans Magnus Enzensberger Tom Artin Drawbridge Up: Mathematics—A Cultural Anathema Natick, MA A K Peters 25 https://books.google.com/books?id=daYfAQAAIAAJ&dq=mozart&pg=PA25 Of course, this only raises once more the conundrum why the general public should value gothic cathedrals, Mozart's operas, and Kafka's stories so highly, but not the Method of Infinite Descent or Fourier analysis.
en 1997 Larimer v. Dayton Hudson Corportation, Appeal no. 97-2127: Brief of the Defendants-Appellees United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 11 see footnote 6 https://books.google.com/books?id=9rObQMvc984C&dq=Mozart&pg=PA11 Individuals who are biologically “young” (whatever that means) have no monopoly on “young” or “fresh” ideas. Thus Mozart can write Eine Kleine Nachtmusik before he is dead at the age of 31, Thomas Jefferson can draft the Declaration of Independence at age 34 and Buchminster Fuller, after reaching the age of 70, can continue to get patents for his inventions.
en locality in the carea/Oberon eastern s/New South Wales c/Australia.
Derived terms
en Mozartesque<pos:adjective> Mozartian<pos:adjective>
en attributive uses of the proper noun “Mozart” Mozart ball Mozart effect Mozart and Liszt
Translations
surname
Arabic: ar مُوتْسَارْت mūtsart, ar مُوتْسَارْت mōtsart
Armenian: hy Մոցարտ
Belarusian: be Мо́царт
Bulgarian: bg Мо́царт
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 莫扎特 Mòzhātè
Georgian: ka მოცარტი
Greek: el Μότσαρτ
Hindi: hi मोत्सार्ट
Japanese: ja モーツァルト Mōtsaruto
Korean: ko ^모차르트
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Моцарт
Mongolian script: mn ᠮᠣᠽᠠᠲ
Persian: fa موتسارت môtsârt
Russian: ru Мо́царт m f
Spanish: es Mozart
Thai: th โมทซาร์ท
Ukrainian: uk Мо́царт
References
Duden, Familiennamen: Herkunft und Bedeutung (Kolheim)
en Individuals
French
Etymology
fr :bor de:Mozart
fr de Mozart.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m,f
fr German
German
Pronunciation
de /ˈmoːˌtsaʁt/ /ˈmoːˌtsaː(ɐ̯)t/ /ˈmoːtsɐt/
de De-Mozart.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
surname
de
Declension
surname
Further reading
Hungarian
Pronunciation
mócárt
hu Mo zart
hu aːrt 2
Proper noun
hu proper noun
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Declension
Mozarto oMozart j jai
Derived terms
hu mozarti
Italian
Etymology
it de Mozart.
Pronunciation
Mòdzart
Proper noun
mfbysense
it German
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :bor de:Mozart + 1
Pronunciation
mocart Mo.zart
Proper noun
m-pr
pl music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Declension
s
Further reading
pl Individuals
Portuguese
pt
Etymology
pt :ubor de:Mozart + 1
Pronunciation
môzarti^
Proper noun
mfbysense
pt German
Spanish
Etymology
es :bor de:Mozart + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
mfbysense
es German